2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

2 Peter 1:2

May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

Numbers 24:20

Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."

Deuteronomy 32:29

I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them."

Matthew 12:43-45

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

Luke 11:24-26

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, 'I will return to the home I left.'

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

Hebrews 6:4-8

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Through

Bible References

Escaped

2 Peter 2:18
For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
2 Peter 1:4
Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

Through

2 Peter 1:2
May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

The latter

Numbers 24:20
Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."
Deuteronomy 32:29
I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them."
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

General references

Genesis 24:6
"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.
Leviticus 14:43
"If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,
Deuteronomy 14:7
However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
Jeremiah 34:11
But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.
Ezekiel 33:18
When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Matthew 7:27
The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!"
Luke 14:30
They will say, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!
1 Timothy 5:15
For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.

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